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Nonfiction The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I Steven Ujifusa
Nonfiction They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children Hannah Hahn
Recommended Reading Jews in the Rubble: A Reading List Earlier this week, Polly Zavadivker wrote about S. Ansky, Isaac Babel, and Vasily Grossman’s chronicles of the catastrophe of the Russian twentieth century. She… Polly Zavadivker April 20, 2016
Essay On Writing Catastrophe: Jewish Chroniclers of War in 20th-Century Russia Polly Zavadivker is the editor and translator of the recently published 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front. She is blogging… Polly Zavadivker April 18, 2016
Interview Interview: Alexis Landau by Becca KantorJewish Book Council’s inaugural Unpacking the Book: Jewish Writers in Conversation event featuring debut authors was an excellent opportunity to… Becca Kantor March 17, 2015
Nonfiction A Strange Death: A Story Originating in Espionage, Betrayal, and Vengeance in a Village in Old Palestine Hillel Halkin
Nonfiction We Are Coming Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren , 2010. 200 pp. $39.95 ISBN: 978-7425- 5274-6
